Welcome to Mendeley
Programme:
Presentation of Mendeley
Making an account
Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley Web
Import of references
Create a bibliography
Exercises
The Basics
• Mendeley Desktop / Mendeley Web – download
Mendeley desktop from www.mendeley.com
• Save to Mendeley – Install Save to Mendeley to your
favourites bar and add full-text from any website
• Watched folders – imports pdf-files directly to
Mendeley from a folder on your computer
• Citation Styles – determines how the citations
appear in the bibliography
• Cite-O-Matic – installation for Word (or Open Office)
to keep track of your references while writing
Import
There are different ways to import references
• From literature databases like Web of Science, CAB
Abstract, Scopus etc etc etc
• From Journal publishers like Science Direct
• From the app Browzine which has access to Copenhagen
University electronic journals
• With the RIS Format that allows you to export as many
references as you want
• ‘Drag and drop’ PDF-files directly into Mendeley
• Watch folder – Choose a folder on your computer. The
PDF-files in that folder will automatically be imported to
Mendeley
Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley Reader
Cite-O-Matic
This citation style is called Nature1
1. Shiogama, H. et al. Predicting future uncertainty constraints on global warming projections. Sci. Rep. 6, 18903 (2016).
This citation style is called Harvard(Shiogama et al. 2016)
Shiogama, H. et al., 2016. Predicting future uncertainty constraints on global warming projections. Scientific reports, 6,
p.18903.
Support
• Mendeley Support
– You can find support on both the Desktop- and
the web version
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FAQ
Help guides to Desktop, Web, IOS, Android
Help guide to, Citation plug-in, Groups, Private Groups
Videos and tutorials
• KUB Frederiksberg
– We are working on a helpsite on the library’s
website. It will be available soon